In the summer of 2019, I took a class on Solutions Journalism with Melissa Faye Greene, who encouraged us to look beyond the dire headlines we’d become used to and elevate the hopeful stories that left its readers with a little hope. For my own solution story, I chose to highlight a local cemetery’s commitment…… Continue reading Writing: The Third Death
Category: Research
Research: The Argos Project
For my Grantwriting class, we were given 5-6 categories of social issues, then asked to pick one and write a grant for a project that would uniquely address an aspect of our issue. Since I chose the Pets with Homeless Owners group, I created The Argos Project, a group that would train volunteers to give…… Continue reading Research: The Argos Project
Writing: Social Media As Means to Redress Exploitation of Disorganized Labor
This paper was written for my Technologies of Social Change class with Dr. Ivanova in the fall of 2019. By examining an entirely-online labor protest event, I consider the ways social media can be used by movements to gain momentum, manage public attitudes, and resurrect old wrongs to be righted in labor disputes. This paper…… Continue reading Writing: Social Media As Means to Redress Exploitation of Disorganized Labor
Research: Who Bears Witness for the Witnesses?
This research paper was created for my Critical Communications class in the fall of 2018. In CC, we were asked to look critically at the ways people communicate, how we interpret that communication, and what that says about the people on both ends of that relationship. With the advent of the #MeToo movement in the…… Continue reading Research: Who Bears Witness for the Witnesses?
Pitch Deck: A Transmedia Odyssey
In the fall of 2018, my Transmedia class was given the assignment of creating our own transmedia story, told across at least three platforms, and then pitching our classmates, who would then pick which project we would eventually produce. Since we were allowed to use ideas in the public domain, I decided to create an…… Continue reading Pitch Deck: A Transmedia Odyssey
Isobel Robinson-Ortiz 